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Earwig

noun

Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen.

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common European earwig

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... they are being carried to the river. The throwing of the images, rags and all, into the river, is to destroy the spirits or at least send them elsewhere. They did not go and pour boiling water on their earwig-traps, as wicked white men do, but they meant the same thing, and when this was over they made and set up new images for fresh spirits who might come into the town, and these were kept and tended as before, until the next ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

Words linked to "Earwig" : Forficula auricularia, Dermaptera, insect, order Dermaptera